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il Eaxl C. Brownles Sheldon F. Sackett '.: Publishers Editorial MM Feafttuur Salem. Oregon Frfdy j f November SO, 1028 f lifce to beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every re gion under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. Emerson. Who's Who and Timely; Views It Will Be Bully THE Argentine government was yesterday waiting word ? as to whether Herbert Hoover is traveling in an official or personal capacity, before arranging details of the program lor his entertainment at Uuenos Aires .So President Yrigoyen asked Ambassador Robert W "Rlica and Vo rnhlArJ in Washington And Washington authorities cabled to Henry P. Fletch er, our ambassador to France, who is on the Maryland with Mr.Hoover And it was announced that "any response to the inquiry will be made by Mr. Fletcher direct to Ambassador Bliss' V And then Ambassador Bliss will whisper the news to President Yrigoyen ; . And then the preparations can Yrigoyen that is, they can go on without any sort of faux pas or embarrassing flub dub, and there will be nothing done that will be de trop or too much or too many or out of place, or flabbergasted or mul- ligatawnied m any manner whatsoever And the thine will be Dulled off according to Hoyle. Which is all fit and fine and salving and slick to the sen sibilities of the high Castilian pride of our Spansh cousins. If Theodore Roosevelt were in the flesh, he would no doubt add that that will be bully. Whether the visit is official or personal, it all comes out fit the same soout. Mr. Hoover would be the last person in the world to have anything happen at Buenos Aires that would jar the nerves of the people of that sister republic ' But if he could get Mr. Yrigoyen out in the barn in Sa lem, Oregon, where he used to do a good engineering job of bedding down the tired horses and attending to their proper currying and feeding, as he did in days of yore, and as in the selfsame spirit of informality he administered to the com forts and necessities of naked and starving multitudes of men, women and children during the world war If he could get the president of the South American re public out in the barn here, and they could enjoy the mutual comfort of a eood cigar, they could talk over the things on Mr. Hoover's unofficial and private mind, that .will soonlpfei on his public and official chest, better ana less aisturoea man they will be when surrounded by gaping thousands yelling "Viva Hoover!" In short, Mr.. Hoover will not be particular how Mr. Fletcher answers the inquiry, so that he does not in any way intimate that the inquiry is out of place. ' Paraphrasing the words of the Texas congressman, "What the hell's the constitution among friends ?" Mr. Hoo ver no doubt is asking himself what is formality, any way, among friendly peoples? FKAR3 OF COMMERCIAL. WAR DECLARED GROUXDL.E8S By Dr. J alias Kleia . Director of tta V. a. Bumi af Vartif Ml DlWIItil COHMI, (Dr. Jaliaa Ktmi vu aara la Saa JC Cal., ta 189. IU waa graaaataa' foam ta Ualrvrsitjr of Calif wraia ia 107 aa later atodica ia BarUa aa Paris. Dr. Kleia aua aa iareattfUaa at Latia, Aaierieaa and Spaaiab aiatary for a few yean and terved aa iaitrnetor of Latin. American history and economic at Har vard nniyeraity from 1915 to 1933. He was connected aa chief of the Latin American diviaiea of the V. 8. Depart nveat f Commerce ia Waahiacton from 191T to 1919. ft haa teen director of the bareaa of feroira aad domaotie com merce eiaea 1921. Dr. Kleia gaiaag la teraattaaal rero(oitia an a financial ox port.) . ' j : i ; 'r fORCIGN trade ia very mexh jy .In , the air these day. Many lfMfeA UlAl UTCI SCm VWIII1UP1 cial adventuring may presage dangerous conflicts and rlralries abroad, believing that our Amerl- - ' American trade growth la at the expense of oth ers. Vigorous com mercial efforts abroad, It Is al leged. will m e a n friction with other trading nations fierce strug gles for trade supremacy, bit ter competition that might ev entually have dire consequences in the diploma tic, or even in the military sphere. After all, they say, wasn't it just such rivalries that started the war in 1914? Such apprehensions, such com parisons with the prewar crisis, are quite as groundless in my S r UALBAf ag opinion, as the fears inspired by "eomereial imperialism" which, in some minds, may be conjured up by the old old-time stories of for eign traders' croel impositions on defenseless peoples. The truth of the matter is that-the post-war world has been moving very def initely away from the idea not on ly of "exploitation" but also of commercial "combat." This idea of "commercial con flict" is plainly a contradiction in terms. The fact is that no true commerce is possible in conflict. Modern war kills business. It may breed ocasional rank growths of profiteering, but to the great body of commerce, it is immeasur ably destructive. Business today is rooted in credit and credit means confi dence. Americans have not the slight est reason to view with disquie tude our country's growing parti cipation in world trade. It rep resents a contribution, not only to our own welfare but to that of humanity at large. The Way of the World By GROVE PATTERSON A Unfinished Work S Ezra Meeker lay on what he believed to be his deathbed he said to his daughter: "I have lots of unfinished work. I'm not quite ready to go." For 97 years that has been characteristic of the career of the grand old man of the Old Oregon Trail. This rugged pioneer, citizen of the whole northwest and the whole country and the entire world, has had unfinished work throughout his life voyage Every day of the tiresome trip across the prairies and plains and mountains to the Oregon country in 1852, when it seemed all the world was moving west, was unfinished work. Pioneering here was unfinished work. He was a pioneer of the hop industry. He was on the thin line of the men of vision in many undertakings ' And he might have retired 30 years ago with a record of achievement that would have satisfied most men ; though he had plenty of unfinished work to do. But he refused to quit just because he had reached the scriptural limit of years allotted to the average man And he has done more since reaching that age than many men do in their whole career; crossed the . continent over the route of '52 and marked the trail and headed a movement to make that symbol of the unconquerable pioneer spirit forever memorable. Traveled the route by automobile and by air plane, and exemplified the urge of the old days in many ways. - When Ezra Meeker first reached Seattle it was a village of 20 log huts. He visioned the future and saw the dream of a groat city come true. As the grim reaper calls his name he has still unfin ished work. As his spirit puts out to sea on the tide ebbing to eternity he shows the spirit of conquest. Who could hope ior a more appropriate crossing or the bar! : -. Hoover a Progressive FT1HEY are proclaiming Hoover a progressive now. They A . have the right slant. He is an idealist. He is ready to try to do the things that can t be done. He has visions with out being a visionary. He has his head in the air, but he keeps his feet on the ground. , Listen to this from the Washington Post: "Whatever the disappointment of Senator Norris, Sen ator Blaine of Wisconsin and other progressive republicans who swung over to the democratic national ticket, the great bulk of the republican progressives m congress not only worked for the election of Herbert Hoover, but look to him as a liberal and progressive leader. It was because of their belief that Mr. Hoover will measure up in many respects to the ideas of the progressives that such men as Borah of Idaho, Brookhart of Iowa. Frazier and Nye of North Dakota. Howell of Nebraska and Hiram Johnson of California gave ine president elect their hearty support in the campaign. The man who is a bear on the United States government Is a (ool, said in substance the elder Morgan when he loaned this country a hundred million dollars on the call of Presi dent Cleveland when every other financier in America was scared out of his wits. Same here. Watch Salem grow. The man who is a bear on Salem is seven times a fool ; and he will himself realize it before many moons wax and wane. 5et the California "spirit, and boost our nut industries: They are capable of bringing us many millions annually. This is a nut age; andathe next generation will be more so. by a lot; The world will eat more nuts as meat food gets scarcer and higher. In this fact lies great fortunes for this valley. . vi - V This is nut week, and those who do not tret the drift nf it are the nuts out at the end of Center street, under the charge of Or. Sterner. . ; -. ;'AAn extra session of congress is an obvious necessity. It most be held, to speed up farm relief about two years. No doubt Hoover has in his mind plenty of other reasons. rsiinrns BT FRED C KELLY I WAS stayta a white ago. ia sv hotel where one of the iifr. George. P. Baker, possibly the shrewdest beaker of his gen. Many of the guests were gaily diacausing the rise of prices fa. the stock market aad visited from tine to tlsne each day a bro kers office ta the hot!. Bat George F. Baker jmr wemt sear the place nor showed the slightest latere fa stocks nntU one day when an alaraUag slamp occmrred. Then he sasmtered in and bought a rewfhandred shares of bargains. Men, of the George F. Baker type 'laeyer hay any other kind. I noted.' too, that: the stocks he bought rr inconspicuous and lona neglected, baft by nncaany coincidence November 20, 1028 Who am I? What is my profes sion T What is my latest work? In what country was William III, King of England, born? What nickname is sometimes applied to Industrial Workers ef the World? Where is the Island of Yap? "So when this corruptible shall have pat on In corruption, and this mortal shall have pat on im mortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that Is writ ten. Death is swallowed up in vic- Inra WkM 1- III. round m the Bible? JIMMY JAMS l Just heard mom tc 1U& CMA6TMA& rii SW I A Daily Thought "Poverty is shunned and perse cuted all over the globe." Lu- can. Answers to Foreroinf Oueati 1. Eugene O'Neill; playwright; "Strange Interlude." 2. Holland. 3. "WobbUes." 4. In the Pacific ocean, south of Japan. 5, I Corinthians, xv, 54. flher WHERE FROM? There are those who believe we have all lived upon the earth be fore and that we go merely to come again. They believe In what call re-incarnation. We e back in higher form, aa a her type of personality, if we win that right by our behavior now. It would seem that there might be some foundation for this faith. How does man come by his finest Impulses? Why does he visualize-ideals and strive to realize them? Somebody has said: "We come from a world where we have known incredible standards of excellence. And we dimly remember beauties which we have not seized again. And we go each to that world." a TTIE PATH OP FREEDOM In a verse of that splendid hymn one reads: O beautiful for pilgrim feet. Whose stern impassioned stress. A thoroughfare for freedom bea.t Across the wilderness." worship and expression. They fled to the unknown wilderness of America to find It. They made. indeed, a oath of freedom. But they had - weaknesses which we have inherited. What they some. tfm called freedom was rather an insistence on having their own war against the wishes and rights of others. Early churchmen made a great deal of freedom, sung its praises, Journeyed far to find It, but they weren't above persecut ing Quakers aad others. A path of freedom through the wilderness is not a path of free dom if it is only OUR path, a a DISCIPLINE Discipline Is exercise for the soul. Whatever church we may or may not belong to it will be an excellent thing for us to deny ourselves something very definite and pleasant during that season of the year called Lent. If we suffer a little, it's the discipline that makes us strong. No use giving up anything if there's bo sacrifice in it. no discipline. a a ,y DRUDGERY Many young men of the pres ent crop can not understand why they can not step from school, or from the nursery for that matter, right into a good Job paying a large salary. They hope and con fidently expect to skip all the pro cesses of drudgery. Strange that their education, so-called, hasn't taught them better than that. Good crops do not spring fall grown out of the ground. Even flowers as beautiful as a college boy or girl do not grow to the full height of beauty "between sunset and dawn. It was Margaret Ful ler, a wise woman, who wrote: "Drudgery is as neeessary to call out the treasures of the mind as harrowing and planting thdse of the earth." Bats for Breakfast Here's hoping V That's good digestion has wait ed on appetite; though the latter led to the limits of gluttony. a "a Mr. Hoover is the happy am bassador of good will. He has studied up and has something ap propriate to say to our Latin American neighbors, each-tne of them. "a What he had to say to our Cos ta Ricans must have pleased them. The fact : that they hare four school teachers for every soldier; that they hare done well in artis tls matters: that most of them own their farms and homes, etc.. etc.- The rest of the world is learn ing Central and South American geography, too, which is good. Costa Rica is a snug and comfort able country of no mean size, tucked away Just below Nicara gua and above Panama where we have our celebrated canal; and the people down there hare rea sons for taking pride in their land. S Among other gestures of respect Rv R- J. Hendricks - ia Americans, iucj lainj uvk w them. e Much of the rest of the world is torn by storms and floods and frenzies of the destructive ele ments. Only our own blessed val ley seems serene in the aftermath days of the Indian summer. Too few of us thought of feeling thank ful for our climate. It is too com monplace, like the clear air we breathe and the pure water we drink and the gentle showers that fall on the place beneath. a S S Blood-letting cannot be healthy. It has been abandoned by the sur geons and let it be' abandoned by the nations. Field Marshal Lord AHenby. a S If you can's fight or run, the only thing that will help you is a forgiving spirit. "You dry a plum to get a prune, but some political prunes go dry in order to get plums," says the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Which ones, for Instance? a S S Some cynic remarks that there is one law for the rich and anoth er for the poor, and about two million for the middle class. And most of the two million are brok- the Costa Ricans proclaimed a na tional holiday to Mr. Hoover when i en or forgotten ne went to visit them. But thatj Is not a major gesture, for hol- The holier-than-thou attitude days are common among the Lat-may be caused by excessive vir tue, but usually it is caused by a poor memory. S The handsome Statesman proof reader says Herbert Hoover fe i "shellback;" that is, he has cress ed the equator before and will es cape the ducking reserved for itlu first time crossers on the Mftry land. But Mr. Hoover is no haird shell. Remember the hardshell n- llgionisis or ine oiu aays? Tney are nearly all gone. The soft ateii variety is not as picturesque, but It is generally more tolerant. A drunken father in Chicic) a In kuled bis 22 year old son. At th murder trial the father cried, hi Jury cried, the Judge cried and h, prosecuting attorney broke dol and blubbered. At that, the jiir arose as one man and said ' guilty." Papa may now go get drunk and kill the rest of family and offer tears as an idence of innocence. ExcIuuik Party Is Given At Henkle Home 101 lit. n- INDEPENDENCE. Ore., Nov. 29. (Special) Mesdames Rob bie Donaldson. Hubbard and Rob inson from this city and Mrs. Chester Henkle of Dallas were hostesses at a 500 parts at the Henkle home in Dallas Monday evening. Most of the guests were from Independence. Fourteen tables were played. TT-a One-Minute Pulpit Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consid er not that they do evil. 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